How To Build Strong Strategic Business Partnerships And Take Your Company Public

Do You Need Capital For Your Company, Build Strong Strategic Partnerships! Strategic alliances are the number one way to strengthen your company if you are trying to raise capital from venture capital firms, angel investors, hedge fund lenders, angel investors or if you are trying to take your company public. The big question is, “Where do you find these partners and who can help you speed up the search, ” You should start by having an executive meeting and put all your industry contacts together and invite these contacts to a networking ‘meet and greet’.

I just cherry pick to find the best partners for my client. Your contact portfolio is the most powerful thing you’ll have in business. Contacts are your bartering chip when you’re in a crunch or when your board of directors is all looking at you waiting for a miracle. Take the initiative and find a consultant who can help you launch your company into a whole new realm with the power and knowledge and expertise of a contact base built to induce growth and stability.

4,000 on Chase Sapphire Preferred to unlock your 50,000 sign up bonus points. 4,000 in the first three months responsibly is an important factor in choosing. Even as a travel blogger, I don’t quite spend all my money on travel. 5,000 of that on travel and dining - I’ll earn 25,000 points - 10,000 from Travel and Dining, and 15,000 for all your other purchases.

312.50 of value toward any travel purchase when you factor in the 1.25 cents per point of value when redeemed through Chase. 12,000 in travel and dining on Chase Sapphire Preferred to come out ahead. If I happened to spend 20,000 on travel and dining alone, I’d come out ahead with Chase Sapphire Preferred on earnings, but sadly, I have other expenses as well and with 20,000 in total spend broken like above, Venture wins. Do the math for your personal needs, based on your spending habits.

Chase has a major added benefit to their points earning, with the ability to convert Ultimate Rewards Points into airline miles or hotel points. But restrictive airline seat availability and hefty airline surcharges levied by some airlines may make it hard for travelers who are constrained by tight travel dates or budgets to transfer their points for great value.

That’s effectively 10% savings. The free night is an average of what you paid for your 10 nights, and can be used at any eligible property around the world, on any date that it’s not sold out! Both cards offer simple interfaces for booking any flight, hotel or other travel purchase via their travel websites. At the end of the year, you’ll have a nice stack of points or miles with either credit card and can spend them without blackout dates on any flight, hotel or car rental.

These points are safer than collecting a single airline or hotels loyalty points, since they are free from devaluation. The Chase Travel site is slightly newer than Capital One and is improving quickly. With that in mind Capital One’s ability to go back in time and “erase” previous travel purchases with miles, or book new hotels, car rentals or flights with miles outright is slightly more flexible.

You honestly really can’t go wrong with either, and either way - you don’t have to stress about finding availability, or multiple seats or rooms on peak dates. If you can fly on any given date, where there may only be one available seat per month, you can almost definitely unlock more aspirational “luxury” travel experiences by transferring points into miles with Chase Sapphire Preferred. But, for those who are stuck with school schedules, limited vacation time or must travel during national holidays, the earning rate on Venture makes it a (semi) surprising winner here.

Now Capital One has improved a product in a way that’s truly miles ahead of its competitors when it comes to bonuses for hotel spending. While there’s a ton of cards with airline bonuses, no one has ever gone this far with hotels — the decision puts the product on par with some of the best travel rewards cards out there. 10x miles is by far the highest credit card bonus you’ll find for booking hotels.

The Amex Platinum offers 5x but that’s only on prepaid hotels booked through Amex Travel which is much more restrictive and has a smaller number of properties — plus the non-refundable rates make it a no-go for me. 450 annual fee, and you can only take advantage of the perk if you’re booking a stay of four nights or more.

For every 10 nights you stay, you’ll get one free night that you can redeem at any property in the world. That’s an absolutely astounding value that no other credit card really comes close to. Both VentureOne and Venture Rewards will retain their sign-up bonuses. 3,000 in the first three months of cardmembership.